[License-review] Request for License Retirement: CPAL 1.0

[Bruce Perens]

I am requesting retirement of CPAL 1.0

It says on the OSI web site that a request for retirement can only be made
by the license steward. However, the license steward was a business that
does not appear to exist any longer. I see this information on
Wikipedia: "On May 1, 2012, Socialtext was acquired by Bedford Funding, a
$1.4 billion private equity firm that also owns Peoplefluent and the
product was intergrated in its portfolio." I see various github
repositories making use of the license with no changes more recent than 8
years ago.

Thus, I submit that in the name of removing useless and completely unused
licenses from the set of approved licenses, other parties should be allowed
to request the retirement of a license with no remaining steward.

At this time, I can find no active use of the license at all, only
historical use. And IMO it was a mistake for OSI to approve the license at
all. It was very contentious at the time, received a lot of press, and in
the aftermath, was completely useless. So, retirement for the purpose of
cleaning up a mistake seems to be a good reason, too.

    Thanks

    Bruce

-- 
Bruce Perens - Partner, OSS.Capital.
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